Re: Coding selection and pixmap tools?

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

2009/3/17 Wouter Bolsterlee <wbolster gnome org>:
> 2009-03-16 klockan 19:30 skrev Juhana Sadeharju:
>> Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
>> >The Gnome screenshot utility in the upcoming 2.26 release will feature a
>> >"grab part of screen" option that can be used to make screenshots of any
>> >rectangular area on your screen.
>> A screenshot utility is not a solution to this problem. You missed a
>> point. Screenshot utility does not re-render the selected area with larger
>> DPI. [...] Also, a screenshot utility may perform badly when the doc is
>> framed (possibly by having large DPI) and not all are visible in the
>> frame.
>
> So, summarizing, do I understand correctly that you would like a way to
> render a page of a PDF document in a HIGH resolution? If so, I'm not sure
> Evince is the right place for such a tool.

What if whoever that needs a specialized tool that is closely related
to evince creates a new app based on evince that performs such
specialized task?

In that way we keep a simple and very usable evince app in GNOME, and
people with specific use cases get their own tools. So everybody is
happy ;)

It's very easy to develop an alternative UI around evince with the
python bindings for libevview.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Plainly stating that you want to do something that is currently not possible
> is not a valid premise to conclude that:
>
>> Therefore, this tool needs to be coded to Evince.
>
> There is is no "need" to do anything before it's clear what the problem is.
>
>> No external software can do it. Do you agree? Can you help or not?
>
> No, I don't agree. Agree to what exactly, by the way? You're going way too
> fast with your reasoning, skipping various important steps, most notably a
> problem analysis. It's still unclear what the supposed use case is.
>
>> What other open source PDF viewers are available? I will move to elsewhere
>> if no co-operation is possible. I have made these inventions for a good
>> reason, to be used in free (like GNU) book projects.
>
> This sounds like a moot argument ("treatening to leave") to me. You assume
> the worst of all possible intentions of the people you are talking to. That
> attitude is killing, especially in a OSS setting. So, don't.
>
>> People like you fail to see the problem in proper because you don't
>> attempt to do what I want to do. In that case you just should trust me and
>> help.
>
> I dislike that you refer to me as "people like you", and I strongly urge you
> to refrain from addressing me in such an unfriendly and disrespectful way in
> future correspondence. I'd welcome your apologies for your very unfriendly
> and uncooperative attitude.
>
> Take care,
>
>    — Wouter
>
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